Brent Ghelfi has served as a clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals, been a partner in a Phoenix-headquartered law firm, and now owns and operates several businesses. He has traveled extensively throughout Russia, and lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife and family.
""""The Burning Lake"" is evocatively written, and Volk is a marvelous antihero. Ghelfi's Russia is a soul-numbing nightmare of corruption, crime, deadly pollution, and lost hope. This one merits comparison with the brilliant thrillers of Martin Cruz Smith and Tom Rob Smith."" --""Booklist"" ""Readers who relish the darker side of today's Russia will welcome Ghelfi's fourth thriller featuring spy Alexei 'Volk' Volkovoy...The twisty trail eventually takes Volk to Las Vegas for an exciting showdown."" --""Publishers Weekly"" ""If Robert Ludlum and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn were to collaborate on a thriller, they'd come up with ""The Burning Lake"" by Brent Ghelfi. If they were lucky."" --Keith Thomson, author of ""Once a Spy"" and ""Twice a Spy"" ""Swift, sharp charter descriptions and atmospheric evocations of fray, melancholy Moscow and the seedier streets of Los Angeles add style and color to a delectably complicated plot."" --""Kirkus Reviews"" of ""The Venona Cable""